Published in September 2011, the first solo recording of Marco Pierobon, member of the Gomalan Brass quintet (www.gomalanbrass.com – Italy) and former Principal Trumpet with two of the two top Italian Symphony Orchestras (Maggio Musicale [...]

GARON by Yuval Avital Contemporary music for 40+ tubas, 6 percussion, choir, 3 conductors and live electronics. Premiere 26/01/2012 – closing concert of Anish Kapoor’s site specific installation in Milan, Italy, titled “Dirty Corner”. Dirty [...]

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2012 and the new year with BrassMusician! We’re looking forward to another amazing year of growth, serving brass players like you all around the world. With any new year comes [...]

The control panel in the BrassMusician.com system has a nifty feature showing which articles receive the most number of views. Based on our reports, the 7 most popular articles of 2011 have been listed below. [...]

With 2011 drawing to a close, we thought it would be fun to list our 5 favourite brass playing blogs! #1 Hornmatters.com John Ericson and Bruce Hembd have done it again, reaching the #1 spot [...]

The thefts, band leaders say, are probably attributable to Southern California’s banda music craze and to the high prices the brass instruments fetch on the black market. By Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times As Southern [...]

The brass playing community, especially in Scandinavia and the U.K., was saddened today to hear of the death of Peter McKinnon – ex-bass trombone player in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Here is an excerpt of [...]

Here in Sweden, a strange phenomenon seems to be appearing in various locations around the capital, Stockholm. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as “Månadens Siegfried” or “Siegfried of the Month” in English. Staffan Lunden-Welden [...]

Fidel Bernabe, a talented trumpeter in Mexico, is among the brass band musicians who are part of Southern California’s ‘tuba revolution.’ They’re showing their chops on an instrument whose ‘thunk thunk’ attracts dance-minded partygoers. By [...]

We are saddened to hear of another loss to the brass community; it has been a year of losses, however, their character, lessons, performances and recordings will stay with us. Nigel, 3rd trumpet for the [...]